Feature	Description
Geo-replication	TiKV uses the Raft consensus algorithm and the Placement Driver to support geo-replication.
Horizontal scalability	With the Placement Driver and carefully designed Raft groups, TiKV excels in horizontal scalability and can easily scale to 100+ terabytes of data.
Consistent distributed transactions	Similar to Google's Spanner, TiKV supports externally consistent distributed transactions.
Coprocessor support	Similar to Hbase, TiKV implements a coprocessor framework to support distributed computing.
Automatic sharding	TiKV shards your data into regions without manual intervention, reducing maintenance burden.
Region balance	TiKV supports rebalancing regions due to faults, workload, or topology needs.
Dynamic membership	Grow or shrink TiKV clusters dynamically, without the need for downtime.
Rolling online updates	Using supported deployment methods, safely upgrade TiKV clusters without worry.
Extensive Metric Suite	Easily integrate TiKV into your infrastructure monitoring with extensive Prometheus reporting.
Flexible APIs	Use transactional or raw gRPC APIs through clients in your favorite language, or use gRPC directly.